KU Leuven supports a fair approach to scholarly publishing – Open Access Belgium

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-05-20

Summary:

"KU Leuven launches the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access, enabling the publication of scholarly books and articles in a way that is cost-effective, puts academics back in charge and benefits the public at large. For many years now, opposition against a commercial approach towards scholarly publishing has been growing stronger and stronger. The for-profit model leads to publications which are prohibitively expensive, either for the reader or for the researcher, and typically puts commercial partners in control of the dissemination of scholarly work since researchers have to transfer critical aspects of their author’s rights in order to get published. Alternatives such as Green Open Access (whereby researchers make an archival copy of their publication freely available to all), in most fields, do not challenge the traditional commercial publication model enough. Therefore, another alternative is on the rise, namely Fair Open Access. Publications in Fair Open Access are immediately freely available to all, are produced according to cost-effective (rather than commercial) principles and guarantee full control of researchers over the entire publication process. KU Leuven has been supporting Green Open Access for many years already, and now intensifies its efforts to maximize scholarly exchange, collaboration and innovation by creating the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access, administered by KU Leuven Libraries. This fund provides financial support for the production costs of books published by Leuven University Press as well as articles in selected journals, on the condition that these journals are published according to the Fair Open Access model and maintain the highest academic standards. More information and application forms can be found here."

Link:

https://openaccess.be/2018/05/18/ku-leuven-supports-a-fair-approach-to-scholarly-publishing/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
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oa.new oa.belgium oa.funds oa.funding oa.funders oa.authors oa.books oa.gold oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.ku_leuven oa.hei oa.business_models oa.economics_of oa.costs oa.principles oa.advocacy oa.fair oa.journals

Date tagged:

05/20/2018, 11:12

Date published:

05/20/2018, 13:11